Although Yuan Yue and Yuan Jie were born to the same mother, she was arrogant and looked down on her fourth sister the most. Yuan Jie is a master who loves to show off, and every time he gets a good grade, he has to show off in the Yuan Yue room, and this time must be no exception. Yuan Yue has seen some of the world, what this tribute satin is used for, she can see it at a glance, and she must not let her reveal the secret of heaven!

Yuan Yue compared the phoenix hairpin in the hair, asked someone to take the tea and fruit to give it to Ling'er, and said: "Go back and tell the third sister that I understand her beauty, and when the time comes, I will definitely wear the phoenix hairpin." ”

Before she finished speaking, she saw Yuan Jie pull the curtain and enter the door, holding the tribute satin she had just gotten in her hand. Yuan Yue responded with a cold face: "The fourth sister is here, come and serve tea." ”

Yuan Jie didn't pay attention to the coldness in Yuan Yue's words, and only happily compared the satin to her body, and said with a smile: "Second sister, is it good-looking?"

Yuan Yue glanced at Ling'er, Yuan Xi's meaning was already clear in her heart, "Feng" homonym "seal", that is, to ask her to keep her mouth shut, Yuan Yue couldn't help laughing, and pretended to praise: "What gorgeous material, where did the fourth sister get this? ”

Yuan Jie was complacent: "This is called tribute satin, and I got it." You must know that this thing is extremely expensive, and in the Great Chu Kingdom, only official wives above the second grade can use it, and I am afraid that we will not be able to find a few such things in our house. ”

Yuan Yue motioned for Ling'er to go back, and asked someone to bring refreshments to Yuan Jie: "The fourth sister wants to cut clothes and dominate the crowd at the family banquet, right?"

Yuan Jie didn't pay attention to her words, her eyes fell on the phoenix hairpin in Yuan Yue's hand, and snatched it: "This phoenix hairpin, why is it inlaid with rubies? She sighed: "A few days ago, I saw a silk golden phoenix in the eldest sister's room, the eldest sister is inlaid with pearls the size of small nails, she ......"

Before the words were finished, the two little girls serving tea in the Yuan Yue room had already laughed out loud. How can pearls compare to red jade? Yuan Yue coughed, and the two little girls held their breath and bowed out of the room.

Yuan Jie took the cup of tea handed by Yuan Yue, and frowned slightly: "What kind of tea is this that the second sister drinks? Why does it taste so strange? Don't it be last year's old tea? I have a fragrant piece that came down there, and I will bring it over to my sister to taste." ”

The corners of Yuanyue's lips hooked up an imperceptible smile, and gently opened the slightly stretched tea leaves in the cup. It's no wonder that my father doesn't look down on Yuan Jie on weekdays, and he can't even taste a big red robe, and he compares it with incense tablets, I really don't know what my mother Zheng loves her. Yuan Yue was secretly unwilling to be unwilling in her heart, but she still smiled on her face: "Okay, this tea is still sent by the third sister, if the fourth sister has good tea, let the second sister also be full." ”

Yuan Jie smiled: "No wonder, I said how could the second sister eat such an old tea, it turned out that the third sister gave it." The third sister is also pitiful, she occupies the position of the concubine in the house for nothing, and her food and clothing are not as good as one-tenth of the eldest sister's. ”

Yuan Yue secretly sneered in her heart, although the identity of Yuan Xi's concubine was precarious, but the food and clothing in the house had always been respected by her, even if You secretly brought some treasures to the eldest sister Yuan Jia, it was just spending his own monthly silver to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall. What's more, at present, Yuanjia's road to succession may not be so smooth.

Yuan Yue twisted a date and ate it, and said, "The fourth sister followed the eldest sister, and her horizons became more and more broadened. It's like me, even if there are some good ones, they are all sent by the third sister, and my father is afraid that he has forgotten me a long time ago. In the future, my sister will have a bright future, but don't forget my own sister. ”

Yuan Jie couldn't hear the ridicule in Yuan Yue's words, and only said: "It's easy to say, I think only the eldest sister in our house can succeed in the future." The third sister is not successful, the third sister is too stingy and shabby, I think even if her father and grandmother have the heart to let her inherit the family business, the clan elder may not be willing to agree. If the second sister has the heart to walk around with the eldest sister more, I can also introduce the second sister. ”

Yuan Yue said with a smile: "It's enough for us to have a sister in this courtyard." Even if I can get a little bit of blessing from my sister, I will be inexhaustible in this life. ”

Yuan Jie put down the tea bowl and wrapped the piece of tribute satin around her body: "You say, do I cut a skirt or a top?"

Yuan Yue pulled the tribute satin, repeatedly compared it on Yuan Jie, and said with a smile: "Let's make a jacket, such a good material, of course, it must be worn outside, and everyone will see it as soon as you enter the door." ”

Every year, the beginning of winter is the busiest and most lively time in Weifu, the sky has not yet dawned, and the smoke has already risen curlingly. In the kitchen, the meat is chopped, the cooking of carved cauliflower flowers is busy, and the hot water on the stove has to be boiled all day.

This is a solar term in winter, and it is also a day for the Wei Mansion to feast on the shopkeepers of each room under the door. Every day on this day, those local and foreign shopkeepers will take their wives and children to Wei's house for a heart-warming meal. The shopkeepers followed the clan elders to the ancestral hall to make incense, and then to the account room to settle accounts, all of them sat in the flower hall, drank tea and smoked bags. Their wives and daughters were accompanied by the old lady of the Wei family and their three aunts to play in the garden for a day. The play started in the evening, and everyone gathered together to have a good time.

On this day, Yuanjia is always the busiest one, her reputation is outside, and those shopkeepers are eager to see her face. Therefore, she also groomed very carefully.

On the third pole of the day, Yuan Xi was still leaning on the bamboo chair, lighting incense and holding the hand stove, and was idle in the room. Ling'er rummaged through the cabinets and found a set of dresses with flat gold embroidered begonia patterns, and held it in front of Yuan Xi: "Miss, those ladies and ladies have arrived, and the eldest lady has also arrived, but we haven't dressed up yet, if you don't hurry up, the limelight will be stolen by the eldest lady." ”

What is it to steal the limelight? Yuan Xi covered his face with a silk handkerchief and asked lazily, "Has the fourth sister arrived?"

"Aunt Zheng is helping Miss Fourth to make up, hehe, she really used the satin given by Miss to tailor her clothes. Ling'er covered her mouth and smiled.

Yuan Xi tore off the silk handkerchief and sat up: "Let's go, let's go to the second sister's room." Bring the porridge and walnut cake to the second sister. ”

Yuan Yue and Yuan Jie have very different personalities, Aunt Zheng prefers Yuan Jie and often ignores Yuan Yue, so the relationship between the mother and daughter is also light.

"It's better to come early than to come soon, as soon as I come, I'll catch up with the second sister for dinner. Won-hee smiled and lifted the curtain.

Yuan Yue greeted her and smiled: "There's nothing to eat, if you don't like it, just eat some together" Yuan Xi glanced at it, and saw a bowl of red bean porridge and two side dishes on the table, and she ate very simply.

Yuan Xi smiled: "Coincidentally, I told Ling'er yesterday that I want to eat rose eggs, so I'll try them with chopsticks." ”

As soon as Yuan Xi sat down, Ling'er brought a few plates of dim sum and a cup of Bairen porridge from the food box, and gave a bowl to Yuan Yue first. Yuan Yue picked up a piece of dim sum and ate it, and said with a smile: "Today's family banquet, shouldn't the third sister go to see the shopkeeper's wives?

Yuan Xi smiled: "It's not interesting to go, and people don't recognize me as a nominal concubine." It's better to play with the second sister for a day. ”

Yuan Yue shook her head: "This is foolish, you are a granddaughter, you should be in the limelight for you, why should you give it to others? If you want me to say, you should stand in front of the old lady and vomit to death." ”

As she was talking, the girl outside the door reported: "Second Miss, Aunt and Fourth Miss have already cleaned up and asked Second Miss if she is okay." ”

Yuan Yue said coldly: "You replied to them, saying that I haven't dressed up yet, let them go in a carriage, and I will walk with the third lady." ”

The girl replied as she had said, and there was a grumbling anger outside the door: "Every time, it is a grind, as if riding in a carriage with us belittles her." ”

It was Yuan Jie's voice. Yuan Yue snorted lightly, pulled Yuan Xi up, pressed it in front of the bronze mirror, and took his lipid lead powder for a while to apply heavy makeup. After a while, she looked at her masterpiece in the mirror smugly: "How about it, it's not as delicate as the eldest sister? Let's go too, if we can't go back, the eldest sister will steal the limelight." ”

Yuan Xi nodded, stretched out his hand to help the tired silk phoenix on Yuan Yue's head, and said with a smile: "Fourth sister...... Did you really wear the satin I gave her?"

Yuan Yue laughed out loud.

When Yuan Jie arrived, Yuan Yue and Yuan Xi were already sitting next to the old lady drinking tea and eating snacks. This guy came out so early and came in so late, obviously deliberately looking for someone to come out and swagger when everyone was there. For fear that others would not know that she was wearing a dress made of tribute satin.

Yuan Jie stepped forward with a smile: "Granddaughter greets the old grandmother." ”

With a snort, Wei Yuanjia spit out a sip of tea into the cup, choking her and coughing, and the little girl hurriedly stepped forward to beat her back. There was a low snickering sound in the tea room, and Yuan Jie looked around blankly. The old lady also saw the clue and hurriedly said: "It's very hot in this room, four girls, take off your coat." ”

Yuan Jie didn't understand what the old lady meant, so she only waved her hand and said, "Grandmother, are you still undressing? ”

The snickering has turned into a hehe-hehe laugh.

"What are you laughing at?" Yuan Jie was inexplicably laughed at by them.

The only daughter of the shopkeeper of Qianzhuang Yang stood up and said with a smile: "It's the first time I've seen this dress for Miss Four." ”

I don't know who said: "The fourth lady is afraid of the cold, so she wears the quilt on her body!" Everyone suddenly burst into laughter, this laugh made Yuan Jie laugh, she understood that everyone was laughing at her gown, so she was a little disdainful: "No wonder you don't recognize it, this is a tribute satin, in the Great Chu Kingdom, it is only useful for official wives of the second grade or above." ”

As soon as she said this, everyone's laughter became louder, and even You Shi couldn't help laughing. As soon as You Shi turned around, he caught a glimpse of the old lady's gloomy face, and hurriedly covered his face with a handkerchief and held back.

The wife of the jade shopkeeper Wu stood up and couldn't help but smile: "Fourth Miss, this is a tribute satin, and it is not fake that the official wives like it, but everyone is used to make quilt noodles, and I have never seen it worn on your body like you." ”

"Yes, this material was given to me by the third sister. Yuan Jie was stunned, she never thought that she would be put on the spot by Yuan Xi one day.

Yuan Jia frowned, took out her eldest sister's voice and said earnestly: "Third sister, it's just a matter of teasing each other between sisters, how can you let the fourth sister come out to meet people wearing such things? Isn't this a shame for our Wei family?"